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Volume 24, Number 6
NON -CIRi~Uf A7'~1 11'-'
"-A LJ,l'l..l. 1.' tl ber 30, 1995
VCU Voice
A Publicatiollfor Factt/J:y alld Staff 011 Virgillia Com'llOllweaUh lJIliversity's Academic alld Medical CoUege ofVirgillia Campuses
Biotechnology Research Park Prepares for Opening
hy Carol V Dunlap
University News Services
On a recent October morning, William Dewey sat
with a biotechnology company representative in his
Sanger Hall office to seal a leasing agreement for the
company's location in the Virg inia Biotechnology
Research Park. The two smiled into a camera's eye
as a university photographer snapped photos to
record the informal signing ceremony.
The event was indeed special. The future tenant is
Boehringer Ingelheim, a $7 billion German-based
pharmaceutical giant that will open a process devel­opment
laboratory in the Research Park. Frank
Gupton, technical director of sUDsidiary company
B.l. Chemicals that will move into the park said,
Service Awards
More Ihan 1,560 employees were honoredfor tlteir
years of commitment and dedication to Virginia
Commonwealth University during tltis year's 24tlt
annual Service Awardsfest;v;ties. Employees with
25 years of service or more were recognized at an
Oct. 20 Gala Celebration in the University Student
Commons. Clockwise from right: Henrielta Brown,
a 25-year recipient from Student Affairs, accepts
congratulations from Henry Rltone, vice provost
for student affairs. John Lambert, a former School
of Business faculty member who completed 40
years of service, talks with Tom Barker, dean of
the School of Allied Health Professions, Joining
tltefestivities were Employee Relations' Rusty
Smitlt and Sandy Johnson, as well as Dr. Frank
Tortorella, director of Employee Health Services.
JOVANOVIC, JOHN S
"The Research Park is a good match for B.l. Chemi­cals
Inc, Our scientists are excited about the excellent
R&D space and the proximity to the Medical College
of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth Uni­versity,"
Dewey's meeting with Gupton was special but not
unique, As executive vice president of the Research
Park, Dewey has been busy signing a number of new
leases for the park's first completed building, the
Virginia Biotechnology Center, the nucleus of the
planned 22-acre park set to open in December.
The park, to be developed over the next 10 to 15
years, will be devoted to biomedical and biotechnol­ogy
research. Private companies, institutes and
government agenc ies researching and developing
technologies for health care, food safety, nutrition
ULS INfORMA TI ON SERVICES
P.O. BOX 842033 #
and the environment will be housed in the park. A $5
million bond referendum approved by Virginia voters
in 1992 funded park construction, and more than $ 1.2
million has been contributed to the park's develop­ment
by the Greater Richmond business community
and local governments.
"These generous funds testify to the commitment
the state and local governments have made to this
Research Park," said VCU President and Research
Park President and Chairman Eugene P. Trani. "The
$ 1.2 million in funding supported the park's opera­tions
throughout the launch, but now we are
successfully moving into a phase in which the park
wi ll begin its transition to a self-sustaining civic en­terprise."
Please see BIOTECHNOLOGY PARK, page 8
VCU' AmeriCorps
Reaches Olit
for Second Year
by Kyra Scarton Newman
editor
When President Bill Clinton led
representative AmeriCorps members in
their oath for the program's second
year of service, two Virginia Common­wealth
University students were
reciting those words in the White
House,
Their face-to-face pledge to Presi­dent
Clinton: "To get things done."
Nichole Canada, a sophomore from
Warsaw, and Marcus Morton, ajunior
from Farmville, were among 40
AmeriCorps members from across the
country who partic ipated in the OCI. 12
White House opening ceremony for the
1995-96 AmeriCorps program.
"What was going through my mind
was I did make the right decision" in
joining AmeriCorps, Morton said. "I
was delighted. It made me feel good
that I was representing a good cause,"
Both Canada and Morton are educa­tion
majors, and they are participating
in the program via RAMSCorps, the
VCU Education School's initiative
under AmeriCorps. They are serving in
tutoring and mentori ng roles at
Whitcomb Model Elementary School,
located in one of Richmond's public­housing
communities.
Canada used the opportunity in
WaShington to learn what AmeriCorps
members are doing in other states, and
Please see AMERICORPS, page 2

y;;;Do~
Yc.-
3/76-7/
~t{-Ca
Volume 24, Number 6
NON -CIRi~Uf A7'~1 11'-'
"-A LJ,l'l..l. 1.' tl ber 30, 1995
VCU Voice
A Publicatiollfor Factt/J:y alld Staff 011 Virgillia Com'llOllweaUh lJIliversity's Academic alld Medical CoUege ofVirgillia Campuses
Biotechnology Research Park Prepares for Opening
hy Carol V Dunlap
University News Services
On a recent October morning, William Dewey sat
with a biotechnology company representative in his
Sanger Hall office to seal a leasing agreement for the
company's location in the Virg inia Biotechnology
Research Park. The two smiled into a camera's eye
as a university photographer snapped photos to
record the informal signing ceremony.
The event was indeed special. The future tenant is
Boehringer Ingelheim, a $7 billion German-based
pharmaceutical giant that will open a process devel­opment
laboratory in the Research Park. Frank
Gupton, technical director of sUDsidiary company
B.l. Chemicals that will move into the park said,
Service Awards
More Ihan 1,560 employees were honoredfor tlteir
years of commitment and dedication to Virginia
Commonwealth University during tltis year's 24tlt
annual Service Awardsfest;v;ties. Employees with
25 years of service or more were recognized at an
Oct. 20 Gala Celebration in the University Student
Commons. Clockwise from right: Henrielta Brown,
a 25-year recipient from Student Affairs, accepts
congratulations from Henry Rltone, vice provost
for student affairs. John Lambert, a former School
of Business faculty member who completed 40
years of service, talks with Tom Barker, dean of
the School of Allied Health Professions, Joining
tltefestivities were Employee Relations' Rusty
Smitlt and Sandy Johnson, as well as Dr. Frank
Tortorella, director of Employee Health Services.
JOVANOVIC, JOHN S
"The Research Park is a good match for B.l. Chemi­cals
Inc, Our scientists are excited about the excellent
R&D space and the proximity to the Medical College
of Virginia campus of Virginia Commonwealth Uni­versity"
Dewey's meeting with Gupton was special but not
unique, As executive vice president of the Research
Park, Dewey has been busy signing a number of new
leases for the park's first completed building, the
Virginia Biotechnology Center, the nucleus of the
planned 22-acre park set to open in December.
The park, to be developed over the next 10 to 15
years, will be devoted to biomedical and biotechnol­ogy
research. Private companies, institutes and
government agenc ies researching and developing
technologies for health care, food safety, nutrition
ULS INfORMA TI ON SERVICES
P.O. BOX 842033 #
and the environment will be housed in the park. A $5
million bond referendum approved by Virginia voters
in 1992 funded park construction, and more than $ 1.2
million has been contributed to the park's develop­ment
by the Greater Richmond business community
and local governments.
"These generous funds testify to the commitment
the state and local governments have made to this
Research Park" said VCU President and Research
Park President and Chairman Eugene P. Trani. "The
$ 1.2 million in funding supported the park's opera­tions
throughout the launch, but now we are
successfully moving into a phase in which the park
wi ll begin its transition to a self-sustaining civic en­terprise."
Please see BIOTECHNOLOGY PARK, page 8
VCU' AmeriCorps
Reaches Olit
for Second Year
by Kyra Scarton Newman
editor
When President Bill Clinton led
representative AmeriCorps members in
their oath for the program's second
year of service, two Virginia Common­wealth
University students were
reciting those words in the White
House,
Their face-to-face pledge to Presi­dent
Clinton: "To get things done."
Nichole Canada, a sophomore from
Warsaw, and Marcus Morton, ajunior
from Farmville, were among 40
AmeriCorps members from across the
country who partic ipated in the OCI. 12
White House opening ceremony for the
1995-96 AmeriCorps program.
"What was going through my mind
was I did make the right decision" in
joining AmeriCorps, Morton said. "I
was delighted. It made me feel good
that I was representing a good cause"
Both Canada and Morton are educa­tion
majors, and they are participating
in the program via RAMSCorps, the
VCU Education School's initiative
under AmeriCorps. They are serving in
tutoring and mentori ng roles at
Whitcomb Model Elementary School,
located in one of Richmond's public­housing
communities.
Canada used the opportunity in
WaShington to learn what AmeriCorps
members are doing in other states, and
Please see AMERICORPS, page 2